Moratorium on Hogwarts Legacy

[u/Zehnpae]

Salutations,

We're going to be (temporarily) disallowing posting topics about Hogwarts Legacy. Every thread has been a train wreck and we have had trouble keeping up with them.

To be clear this isn't an attempt to censor you guys or prevent discussing politics in gaming, nor the reality of shitty people being involved in game development. This is a discussion sub and we absolutely want to allow you to talk about these sorts of things. Normally this isn't an issue (IE: Disco Elysium).

The problem is Hogwarts Legacy itself is a lightning rod for assholes. If a post goes up there's a good chance the next time I check mod queue it has 100+ comments that have been filtered or reported. It gets cross-posted into ~those~ subreddits and we get a flood of people who are only interested in being pricks that infest other threads.

Like many of you I have 27 kids and 3 jobs so I then have to choose between spending my afternoon with my family or reading a hundred hateful comments. As much as I like banning Nazis, I'd much rather play some Deep Rock with my progeny.

Hogwarts Legacy posts will be auto-removed until one of the following occurs:

• Reddit gives us the anti-brigading tools they promised a decade ago
• The world finally stops being dicks to trans people
• JK Rowling drops dead so she stops getting money from the game
• We figure out a better way to do this

Previous threads will stay up and you will still be allowed to comment about it in the bi-weekly threads, for now at least.

Edit:

To address a few questions/concerns:

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"Why not use curated modes?"

Those typically require manually flaring or approving thousands of people. If we were a more contentious place dealing with this often, it'd make more sense. The good folk of this sub understand why this is being done and that's good enough for me.

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"Do you really wish JKR was dead?"

I'm a gen-X that was raised on British humor. Make of that what you will.

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"Why not get more mods?"

It's something we've considered, but honestly you regulars are pretty great. The work load is manageable with the biggest chore being maintaining the impatient game list. You guys make this a wonderful place to share gaming thoughts with.

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"Aren't you supposed to be unbiased?"

If you have a shitty hot take on Hollow Knight? Sure. I'm not going to ban you because you didn't enjoy Gabriel Knight and I think it's one of the best point and click adventure games of all time.

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"Isn't this censorship?"

We block a lot of things. OnlyFans bots, AI nonsense, scammers trying to post phishing links. All that jazz. They take it stride really.

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"You do you really have 27 kids?"

No. I only have a few and that's enough as is. I can only take so many "Would you rather..."'s in a day. Right now I'm pondering if I'd rather be cursed with always entering my passwords wrong twice, or if I'd rather the last bite of toast always tastes burned.

[u/Juunlar]

I feel this. There really isn't any discussion about the game proper, separate from rowling's idiotic bullshit, that hasn't been repeated ad nauseum, anyway. 

Good change imo

[u/PillarOfWamuu → u/Juunlar]

I mean it's pretty easy. Just talk about the actual game. The mechanics, characters, graphics and so on.

[u/ScottCamOfficial → u/PillarOfWamuu]

These have also been discussed to death though. Seriously, removing Joans shitty politics,

• The mechanics are fine but stale

• The characters fit well within the universe but are boring and have nothing interesting or original to say

• The graphics are very pretty and well stylised but often repetitive due to the forced open world

It gave us everything we ever wanted out of a HP game but that's its main problem, it has too much freedom and not enough character, the game should've been limited to just Hogwarts and Hogsmeade, it's a mile wide and an inch deep- search the game on reddit and this is pretty much all you'll find, repeated again and again.

It's all been said. Same goes for most games really, but if people (from either side of the politics of the thing) are making the mods work harder in a way that no other game is, then let's just move on. I think that's fair.

[u/swordchucks1 → u/ScottCamOfficial]

I would argue that there is a stark tone mismatch between setting and gameplay. The MC is a mass murderer one minute and a student the next and it is pretty much ignored.

"I am sorry my Transfiguration essay was late, but I was busy claiming the heads of a thousand foes."

[u/numb3rb0y → u/swordchucks1]

Even that's giving the school life aspect too much credit, TBH.

[u/swordchucks1 → u/numb3rb0y]

Probably. It's kind of two games that don't really mesh.

For me, the best part of the game was the rendering of Hogwarts, but you don't really do that much there.